Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-02
COAST cULLlNos.
Devoted Principally to washin..,.
Territory and California

An unknown man was drowned /:
the bay at Seattle. ~
The Fire Department of San H..
cisco costs about $4,000 montl, ~
Joseph Swarter, OF Yreka. wos
tally shot by the accidental discharas
OF u gun.
A failure tosvaccinate is punished. I.
Phoenix, A. T., by $500 line or i. e
months in Jail. -
Wages OF deep water sailors ~ g..
Francisco have been advanced fro,,
500 to $50 per month. Vnl
young man named George Abrou.
was drowned while bething in Harm
man creek, near Spokane Falls.
Flood e. Mackay contributed $1,000
to the relief fund of the Virginia NJ;
ners. This swells the fund to sos ON,
A. J. Knott and Willard O. Lows.
dale have purchased the Arlington =,
yer mine, in the Ceur d'Alene re0;on
for $4,000. e'o',
Dayton, W. T.. will build anotbo,
wooden mill. Enough money hss
been subscribed. The old mill burned
down three years ago.
Mrs. H. G. Brainard committed ~;
eide at her residence in Pleasant Wi.
ley, Idaho, by shooting herself thronuh
the head with revolver.
A Press Association is To be oroar.
lied in Idaho, and meeting for IN,
purpose is called for the 10th OF An.
gust, at Great Shoshone Falls.
VIM. Gaby shot his wife at Alturas
CAL, then shot himself. Mrs. Gaby
will probably recover, while the would.
be murderer As expected to die.
Catalina Island. two miles distant
from San Pedro, Cal, has been pur.
chased by q syndicate for $4,000 Il
will be made an immense summer re-.
sort. rs ~
Whitman county, w. T., has the
smallest woman living. She resides
three miles from Pine City, is 81 years
old, 30 inches high, and weighs SO
pounds.
A man named Harvey Langdon, a
civil engineer, lately in the employ Of
the Seattle d West Coast Railway.
committed suicide at Seattle by taking
morphine.
. Two children OF Thomas WaYmock.
Of Thompson's Falls, Montana, aged
respectively 8 years and 20 months,
were burned to death while the house
was destroyed.
One thousand tin boxes, containing
the bones of dead Cinnamon, all ready
for shipment to the Flowery Kingdom,
were found in house in Chinatown.
San Francisco.
John McPloin has sued the Oregon
Development Company for $4,000
damages for injuries sustained in fall
ing down the hatchway OF the steamer
Yaquina at San Francisco. -s-
The war cruiser Caroline has sailed
from Victoria. Her mission is to pro-
tect British settlers from any I'M
friendly acts on the part Of the Amer
lean authorities in Behring sea.
On Joseph Hathaway's ranch, near
Beckwith, Cal, an artesian we'll at q
depth of $50 feet struck water which
flows $50 gallons per minute, hot
enough to cook an egg in eight min
utes.
At Seattle ]. Schreibring refused the
command OF two highwaymen to thru W
up his hands and was shot in the neck
The robbers then fled. The sheriff has
offered a reward of $500 for their cap.
ture.
The remains of Rev. Starr King
have been removed from the church.
yard on Geary street, San Francisco
to the Masonic cemetery, where it i.
proposed to erect a $50 600 monument
to his memory.
At Mountain View, Cal, boiler o.
threshing machine engine on thu
farm of B. H. Martin exploded, killing
Edwin T. earn, the engineer, ant
Louis Salicita, the fireman, and severa
others were slightly injured.
The citizens OF Ritzville, w. T., have
organized Board of Trade, with DR.
Daggett President, and w. E. Black
mer secretary II will be the object Of
this organization to promote the best
interests of Ritzville and Adams county
A large quantity of herring oil was
recently taken to San Francisco from
Alaska. One company at Killsnoo is
engaged solely in catching the fish and
trying out the oil. The carcasses, af-
ter the oil is tried out, are shipped to
Europe as guano.
John and Garlic White, sons of DR.
4. A. White, county physician, aged
II and y years respectively, went out
dove shooting near Sacramento. John
was in advance, and carrying shot
gun over his left arm, when in some
manner the weapon was discharged,
striking his brother in the head and
killing him instantly. The entire top
of his head was blown off.